Chapter 3: The Strange Man in the Stone

The next day, when the sky was still bright, Zhuang Laohan took the two sisters to say goodbye to his mother-in-law and went up the mountain.

"Uncle, where are we going?"

"Zhao'er, Yang'er, Uncle sent you to an old man who lives in this deep mountain, although he has a strange temperament, but he can also protect the two of you."

Uncle Zhuang led Qizhao and Jianyang to walk in the woods for a long time, if you want to talk about this mountain, Qizhao and Jianyang have also been familiar with Zhuang Laohan for a few years, but they have never been to this road.

After walking for more than half a day, I came to the place where the stone bridge was broken, the stone bridge stood abruptly on the mountainside, it was half suspended, and from a distance, there was also such a stone bridge on the halfway of the other mountain, like a mirror, if the two sections were connected, people could walk from this side of the mountain to the other side of the mountain.

Qizhao and Sumire Yang stopped in front of the stone bridge, and Uncle Zhuang didn't seem to hear it, so he walked straight forward, and saw that he was about to step on the broken stone bridge, and Sumire Yang shouted: "Uncle! The bridge is broken! ”

Uncle Zhuang turned around and said to Qizhao and Jianyang, who were standing by the bridge: "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, come with the old man!" Hahaha. The old man smiled kindly at the two sisters.

Qizhao and Jin Yang looked at each other, hesitated and didn't dare to step forward, the old man had to retreat, took Qi Zhao's hand, and Qi Zhao pulled Jin Yang: "Follow the old man slowly, Uncle will protect you." ”

The three of them walked along the broken stone bridge step by step, and they were about to walk to the place where the bridge was broken, Jin Yang was a little scared, and secretly pulled Qi Zhao, Qi Zhao was also afraid, but he believed that the old man would not harm them, so he whispered to Jin Yang: "It's okay." ”

Jin Yang secretly tilted his head and looked down, and under the stone bridge was a deep valley, and those trees that were several people tall were stacked far under his feet at the moment, layer by layer like a green carpet.

My dear, if this falls, won't there be no bones left? Sumire Yang was still very scared, and she squeezed her sister Qizhao's hand tightly and refused to let go. Just closed his eyes and followed straight.

"Sumire? Sumire! Qizhao shook Jin Yang's hand. Sumire still closed her eyes and refused to open them.

"Sumire, look, we're here!"

Jin Yang slowly opened his eyes, and a huge stone appeared in front of him, seven or eight people high, and the stone was also strange, and the whole body was as red as a huge red jade. Jin Yang turned around and saw that the broken bridge was far behind him, and at his feet was already halfway up another mountain.

"We're coming? Didn't fall to your death? Sumire asked her sister Qizhao in surprise, and Qizhao shook her head with a smile.

Uncle Zhuang walked in front and beckoned the two sisters to follow. Jin Yang looked at herself in surprise, and pinched herself with her hand, to make sure that it was not a dream, so she chased after her sister and asked, "Then how did we get here?" ”

"You've always been so afraid of heights, you didn't dare to open your eyes all the way, right? Hehe, the stone bridge looks like a broken bridge from afar, but when you go up, you find that the middle section is just a stone that blends with the scenery in the valley, which is really ingenious. Qizhao sighed.

When Jin Yang heard this, he turned around and looked at the broken bridge behind him, but he still didn't see that the broken piece was actually a stone, which was really strange.

Qizhao and Jianyang followed Uncle Zhuang along the side of the stone to the forest, and after a few steps, they saw a small grass hut sitting next to the huge red stone, and when they got closer, they heard the faint sound of silk and bamboo coming from inside. Qi Zhao stopped to admire, not only sighed lightly: "Kunshan jade broken phoenix called, hibiscus wept and dew Xianglan smiled." It's a wonderful piece of music. ”

After Qizhao finished speaking, the music came to an abrupt end. A woman's voice came from the thatched hut: "The girl doesn't understand this song, so she has to comment on it, saying that it is insulting to this song, and I am afraid that the songwriter will crawl out of the soil and tell the girl." ”

Jin Yang heard the woman in the grass hut ridicule Sister A, and said loudly with some anger: "I'm afraid that this lyricist crawled out of the soil, and the first thing to find is the person who uses this song to ridicule others." ”

Uncle Zhuang turned around and patted Jin Yang and Qizhao on the back: "The doll is not angry, this mother-in-law has such a temper." ”

Qizhao smiled silently.

The three of them followed the old man to the small thatched hut, and Uncle Zhuang raised his hand and knocked on the door: "Senior sister, senior brother didn't want to disturb you, but these two little dolls are really pitiful, and I hope you can help take care of them for a while. ”

There was no sound inside, but continued to play the tune.

The old man smiled helplessly, and continued to raise his hand to knock on the door, Qi Zhao stretched out his hand to stop Zhuang Laohan and said: "Uncle's junior sister is afraid that she doesn't want to help, and the vocal music is full of disgust for our sisters, let's go." ”

The sound of bamboo stopped abruptly again, and a voice came from the thatched hut: "There is a living stone two inches and a living stone under the wall window on the southeast side of this thatched hut, and you can come in by pressing it." ”

The old man listened to the instructions inside, led Qizhao and Jianyang to the southeast side of the thatched hut, and found a live stone two inches under the window. At the same time, the ground beneath their feet also collapsed, and Nanaki and Sumire fell down with a loud scream.

"Eh, junior sister, you can't pity my old bones." Uncle Zhuang stood up with his waist propped up.

Qizhao and Sumire Yang also supported each other, slowly staggering up on a large net made of Bodhi leaves, Sumire looked around, surrounded by red stone walls, the stone wall was crawling vines ziggerly, she looked up at the place where she fell, but found that the yin and yin above it was wrapped in mist, and the red stone wall was reflected like a piece of picking flowers and growing up, and the appearance of layers of flowers, the big hole that the three people fell down from also magically disappeared in the mist.

Whoosh.

The big net under him didn't know what was cutting it off, and Nanaki and Sumire suddenly grunted down from above. Uncle Zhuang flew and stood firmly on the ground. "Eh, my good junior sister, fortunately I haven't lost this skill yet, otherwise I'm afraid my old bones would have to be confessed here."

Qizhao and Jin Yang looked at Zhuang Laohan in surprise, they had been together for three years, but they never found that their uncle was actually equipped with martial arts.

"Uncle, you?" Sumire Yang pointed at his uncle in surprise and asked softly.

"Senior brother, what's the matter? Where did you pick up this doll, I don't know your identity. Qizhao and Sumire Yang looked at the voice, and saw a woman in red sitting in the center of the lake with a veil in the distance, holding the table with both hands, opening her arms, and kicking her feet, and flew from the center of the lake to Qizhao and Sumire.

"Can you fly? What kind of goblin are you? Sumire ducked back. Qi Zhao was also so frightened that he ran behind Uncle Zhuang and didn't dare to step forward.

"Demon? Hahaha-" The woman in red leaned her face closer to Sumire, stared at her with wide eyes and laughed wildly.

"I'm a demon, a little girl with fine skin and tender meat like you, the taste is really beautiful." The woman put her fingers on Sumire's chin and laughed wickedly.

"Senior sister! Don't scare them, they're still little girls—" Uncle Zhuang picked up Jin Yang, who was squatting on the ground in fright, and said to the woman.

"Little girl? When I scolded just now, I didn't see that it was a little girl. It's just a little bit of lyrics and music, and it is really shameless to dare to tarnish my unparalleled "Nine Divine Comedy" like this. The woman turned her face and turned her back to ignore them.

Qi Zhao saw that Jin Yang was teased and ridiculed by the woman, and he couldn't be afraid, and stood up from behind Uncle Zhuang: "Your "Nine Divine Comedy" is not unparalleled in the world, my mother told me that the unrivaled thing in the world today is "Nine Songs", your "Nine Divine Comedy" is just a reference to one of the "Nine Songs", how did it become unparalleled in the world?" ”

When the woman heard Qizhao's words, she flew to the old man's side, wrapped Qizhao with the ribbon in her hand, and dragged her to herself with a little force. Qizhao fell heavily on the damp stone floor, and his bare ankle was cut by the sharp stone at once.

"Senior sister, eh, ah-" Uncle Zhuang was a little distressed, and hurriedly stepped forward with Jin Yang to help Qizhao.

Jin Yang angrily ripped open the ribbon wrapped around Qizhao's body, and threw it at the woman in red in a ball. "You woman is really unreasonable, take your stinky thing!"

The woman was not annoyed, she calmed down, and returned to her arrogant headmaster appearance and said, "Senior brother, they can stay, but if they tell me about this place in the future, don't blame me for turning their faces." ”

The old man was very happy, and said to Qizhao and Jianyang: "My aunt is willing to take you in, and you will hide here for a few days, and when that bastard boy is done, I will take you back." Also, my aunt doesn't like outsiders, so don't talk about things here, in case outsiders disturb her cultivation. ”

Qizhao gently rubbed his ankles, sat on the ground and groaned softly because of the pain, the more Jin Yang looked at the woman, the more angry he became, and said to the old man: "Uncle, who wants to live with this monster, let's go home." ”

"Yang'er, don't be willful." The old uncle scolded her softly, Zhuang Lao Liu knew in his heart that no matter how strange her temperament was, she was a kind and chivalrous person after all. His bastard son fell in love with this sister, and either gave them to a dignitary and became a plaything, or sold them to other countries to make kabuki. How can you give up like this?

Qizhao also sensibly pulled the corner of his sister's clothes, shook his head gently, and signaled her to obey the old man's arrangement.

Jin Yang didn't squeak, but he was also pouting Lao Gao, with a reluctant face.

When Uncle Zhuang saw that the woman in red was silent, he knew that she had taken in the two sisters by default, and he was overjoyed, and folded his hands together and said, "Thank you, junior sister." ”

With that, one flew up the vine that covered the redstone wall, and disappeared into the reddish-pink fog.